White Hand Gang

White Hand Gang was a collection of Irish-American gangs based in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City that existed from the early 1920s to 1925. The gang had unstable leadership due to violence between fellow gang members, and the gang was also virulently anti-Italian. The rival Black Hand mobster Willie Altieri killed the gang's leader, Bill Lovett, in 1923 during a gang war between the American Mafia and the Irish Mob, and Richard Lonergan was assassinated by the Mafia in 1925. By 1928, the Mafia completely controlled the waterfront, and the White Hand was wiped out.